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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. Connected on one side is a flexible fiber bundle, just 1 mm in diameter, with a light source and a digital CCD camera inside.

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kWh Billing and New EV Charging Tax Policies: What You Need to Know

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This metric quantifies the energy transferred to an EV’s battery during charging, similar to filling up an ICE vehicle. or geothermal resources for sale for heat, light or power, or for the furnishing of telephone service, sewerage facilities or water. 6, supplemental or substitute forms of gas sources as defined in § 56-248.1,

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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several genes that allow the plant to use light more efficiently, increase its carbon uptake, and divert more energy to the. light energy. uptake, and optimized light utilization. Nebraska – Lincoln). no rare earth materials, but is light, compact, and potentially. produces more oil per acre. field trials.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. High Energy Density Lithium Batteries.

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